Two people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a Church's Chicken near 66th and Halsted Streets fast-food restaurant in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side this evening, authorities said. Two were dead on scene, police and fire officials said. Four people were taken to hospitals in critical condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Dawn Rhodes and Jared S. HopkinsTribune reporters

The Tuesday special, fried legs or thighs for just 59 cents each, is what brought Jawan Ross, 16, to the Church's Chicken on South Halsted Street in Englewood, his family said.

Ross, a high school sophomore, walked about five blocks from his home to the restaurant. Dantril Brown, 17, also walked about two blocks with a friend from his home to the restaurant for food, his relatives said.

Both teens were inside the Church's shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday when two people got into a fight outside, police said. One of those fighting came into the restaurant, and the other, who had a gun, gave chase and opened fire.

Ross and Brown were both shot and killed. Five others were wounded.

"We thought that he (had) gone to get some dinner," Ross' aunt Latonya Ross said Wednesday. "Next thing we know, we're getting a call that he's been shot. &#8230; He just got caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time."

It was unclear Wednesday if the gunman's intended target was among those who were shot. Police said they were reviewing surveillance video and following good leads. A law enforcement source said one person was being questioned Wednesday night, but police declined to provide additional information about the investigation.

Both Ross and Brown died inside the restaurant, which is in the 6600 block of South Halsted. A 58-year-old man who was wounded in the right arm, right thigh and lower right leg and a 17-year-old boy who was wounded in an arm and a leg were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said.

A 15-year-old boy who was wounded in the left calf and a 51-year-old man who was wounded in the left leg were taken to Stroger Hospital, authorities said. A 22-year-old man suffered a graze wound to his right hand and was treated at St. Bernard Hospital and released.

Ross, of the 6600 block of South Stewart Avenue, was a sophomore at Robeson High School, according to both his family and Chicago Public Schools officials. He stood an inch over 6 feet and loved to play basketball, his relatives said.

His mother, Willamae Jackson, was visibly shaken as she stood in the corridor of the three-flat where she lives. "Words can't even explain it," she said. "He was a good boy."

Ross' cousin Michael Banks, 27, said the teen "was just a little comedian. He was always making jokes."

Word of the mayhem spread in the minutes after the shooting, with relatives and friends of the victims learning of the violence through phone calls, text messages and Facebook.

The friend who had accompanied Brown to the restaurant ran to the home of a relative of Brown's after the shooting, said Brown's brother, Jeremy Haymond, 14. "He said he checked Dantril, and Dantril didn't wake up," said Haymond, who said he chose not to go to the restaurant with his brother because he had a headache.

Haymond said Brown, who lived in the 6800 block of South Emerald Avenue and attended Prosser Career Academy, hoped to get his driver's license soon and often helped him and their younger brother and sister with their homework.

"He was a good person," Haymond said. "He was always there for me."

Brown's grandmother Queen Brown called her grandson "an achiever" and said he liked to work on computers and hoped to attend college.

"He was a great kid. Very smart, very talented," she said. "He knew what he wanted to do. He had his head on straight. He was a good child to his mother, and his brothers and sisters looked up to him."

Earlier Wednesday, some of Brown's relatives returned to the restaurant and left a balloon and four stuffed animals on a ledge outside the building.

"They took one of ours," said Brown's aunt Elzina Brown, gazing at a photo of him. "Whoever did this needs to turn himself in."